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Ping. See reply #2 for an update.

Thanks again!

One thing to note in today’s posting is the front-page coverage of the Czech and other “gold hoards”, which Hitler was judged fortunate to get his hands on.

Money matters!

Especially real money.

The last few days has records of some insane interchanges in the French Yellow Book I've been referencing. I found that these two entries from today of interest (without clogging the threads with all these communiques.

M. ARDIET, French Consul in Nuremberg, to M. GEORGES BONNET, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Nuremberg, March 16, 1939.

GAULEITER STRETCHER (An ardent pro-Hitler Nazi and professor who once drew a scale on a blackboard and said the heavy side was Hitler's brian and the light side was all the professors intellect)*, at a great demonstration organized yesterday evening in Nuremberg on the occasion of the German troops' entry into Bohemia and Moravia, made the following statement: "This is only a beginning: far greater events will follow; the democracies can rise up and protest as much as they like, they will surrender in the end."

Many squadrons flew over Nuremberg this morning on the way to Bohemia.

ARDIET.

* Parenthesis mine.

Also this word comming from Poland already forshadows what is to come.

M. LEON NOEL, French Ambassador in Warsaw, to M. GEORGES BONNET, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Warsaw, March 16, 1939.

Is the action recently taken in Europe by Germany the prelude to further acts in the west or in the east? In Warsaw, the second hypothesis seems quite plausible.

Germany's dissatisfaction with Poland is dear, since the anti-German demonstrations made by the students.

Herr von Moltke does not conceal from his colleagues his ill-humour, which does not spare M. Beck, and he complains that the meeting of the German-Polish commission in Berlin has had no useful result.

The development of sentiments hostile to Germany among all classes of Polish people cannot escape any observer.

It is to be supposed that the reactions and the calculations of the Chancellor will be influenced by this situation.

I learn, too, that a Ukrainian deputy in the Polish Diet, returning from Berlin, has announced that he received there assurances of a new campaign by Germany in favour of the Ukraine.

LEON NOEL.

It seems everyone gets it now. It only amazes me that the "Phoney War" ever happened based on what I read here. I guess hindsight is 20/20.

This is what Chamberlain had to say at this point too. Even the British had Poland on their mind immediately after Czechoslovakia fell.

Chamberlain After Czech Invation

This is getting more fascinating by the day! Ta for the ping.